Reviews by nevele

A masterclass in Texas Blues with a thick layer of Southern Rock, and some funky licks.

The songs in the middle get a bit less than the start, but luckily that downward spiral then gets broken by the amazing La Grange - A song I could listen to 5 times in a row and not get sick of.

"Hey look! It's ZZ Top! You guys rock! "

I just can't do it. I really tried to find the positives, but after 4 songs I just had to turn it off.
Started it up again the next day at song 5 and it was another half-hearted R&B light with more vocal acrobatics than actual lyrics.
I tried, but I just really dislike this.

Such a phenomenally good album. Between the Glam of the 80's and the Grunge of the 90's was a small period with hard rocking alternative music like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and these guys, Jane's Addiction. And they were reinventing music as they went along.

This album just rocks. The lyrics are clever and fun, Navarro's guitar solo's are the best he's ever recorded (before the heroin knocked it a bit out of him).

Just a straight up classic in the genre, and in music history.

It was good to listen to the album when the Stones stopped being a coverband and started making their own. Brian Jones definitely has a good influence on it, but not all songs are as strong as others.
A good debut of their own songs, that's for sure

It's a decent enough debut album but honestly nothing more than that. There's a few songs that rise above the mediocrity (American Girl, Strangered In the Night) but how you would open the album with a song like 'Rockin' Around (With You)' is beyond me.

Another album from The Fall and another album that took a few listens to 'get'.

Superb album

Och

That was a fun listen of two great musicians

I never realised that all the Van Halen songs I liked are all from one album. And their debut nonetheless.

If your 4 opening songs on your debut album are the classic rocking 'Running With The Devil,' guitar virtuous 'Eruption,' super cover 'You Really Got Me' and one of the best riffs of all time 'Ain't Talking About Love,' than how can this be any less than 4*?

How have I've only just discovered the Undertones' Hypnotised album? I can't remember having this much fun listening to an album in a long time. And only 40 years too late!

Is this the best album ever made? Absolutely not. But this proto poppunk makes me want to move and makes an bop my head.

4,5*

The final, and best, of his solo albums. It goes downhill after this

An album must click with you emotionally. No matter how good the music is, how non-intrusive the listens, when no song makes you listen closer and no lyrics stand really out, there's also not really a use to listen to it anymore after these first 3 playthroughs.

The Band does nothing to me.

Late in the evening, in the land of one-armed dwarves, broken promises, women with wooden legs and dive-bars, Tom Waits is King.

"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things"

This is great jazz

What an energy.
What a raw power.
What great riffs.

What an absolute legendary album.

My first thought about this is: I know I listened to this album about 15 times in 2009 & 2010. But I can't even remember what kind of music this was. It has left no lasting memory at all.

And now that I've re-listened to it a couple of times over the last 2 days that feeling hasn't subsided. It's all pleasant music, I don't dislike listening to it. It's clever enough, musically, rhythmically and lyrically. Musically it's in the Indie style I loved back in the day (Yeasayer, TV On The Radio, the whole Brooklyn scene).

But it doesn't do anything for me. It's passing me by. And I don't feel I need to listen to this again.

I understand this album is on the list due to its impact on popular culture and the landmark in time.

But, it's a soundtrack. And it sounds like one. Probably sounds well as background music for whatever is happening on screen.

But aside from the killer opening track and the 20 minute jam-session on Do Your Thing, without the visuals, this album is mostly just funky elevator music.

Right on.

It's a nice heavy late-nite blues rock album that came out in the time when grunge was getting absolutely huge. Lenny Kravitz already showed a year earlier there was still a market for 70's rock.

So here The Black Crowes came with an album that really was nothing new, a combination of The Stones, The Faces and Rod Stewart.

But it rocked. And still does.

As a teenager I snubbed Oasis. Wonderwall was overplayed, the band didn't deserve all that attention, the music wasn't even that good.

I'm glad I re-listened to this album later in life. And I've full come around. I like Definitely Maybe quite a bit, but this album is the best Oasis have released.

Yes, Wonderwall is still being overplayed, but I can't really fault the band for writing a song that apparently resonated with so many people.

And besides, songs like Hello, Roll With It, Don’t Look Back In Anger, Hey Now!, She’s Electric and Champagne Supernova are just amazing.

Happy to have (re-)discovered it and have finally given it the time it deserved

Yeah, it definitely is an improvement of some of their earlier work, but I truly don't get the high scores for an album that's still decidedly average.